Downs, Cyril, Private, 265324, 1st/6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Previous service number 2277
Disembarked for service 10th November 1914
Some time attached to 1st Army School of Instruction
Born Glossop, Derbyshire
Enlisted Hadfield, Derbyshire
Resided Old Glossop
Killed in action 13th November 1917 aged 20
Son of James Downs, of 22, Cliffe Rd., Whitfield, Glossop.
Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial

1911 Census
A belt fastening works driller
Son of James, a cotton weaver's overlooker, and Alice Downs, of 49, Hope Street, Glossop, Derbyshire

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